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So... I've got a fake 3 leg 1937-D Buffalo?
Meltdown
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Vetter pointed this out over on the BST and now I think he is correct...
This is an altered 3 legger, yes?
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Yes, definitely altered.
Also looks heavily cleaned and tooled, but those are minor sins in this case.
Yep... looks altered to me also.
I was going to comment when I saw it in the BST thread, but I wasn't 100% sure..
Definitely fake. The 1937-D 3-leg buffalo is one of the easiest coins to authenticate since there are several well-known and easily discernable die markers.
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Perhaps I'm being too picky but I'd call it "altered" rather than "fake" (or "counterfeit"). I think it's a distinction worth making.
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interesting they tooled the hair on the obverse
a few years ago I started a thread with many pick up points
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1007887/frequently-seen-die-markers-on-authentic-1937-d-3-leggers/p1
I think those scrapes across the body happened when the the tool used to scrape off the leg slipped and cut across the body and elsewhere.
Altered for sure.
I have an altered 37 somewhere, I will try to find it and post photos here or in a new thread.
I’m just glad I was able to point it out to you before a collector purchased it. They would not have been happy once they found out it was altered.
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It will be interesting to see what it sells for on eBay.
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That one looks awful fugly to me. I'll go no go as well
Book it, Danno.
Altered state - And I don't mean the movie.
Pete
Well, it's not authentic!
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A coin carver should create a PEG LEG buff.